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June 12, 2024

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One way of keeping people with dementia in care facilities is to use dark doormats. They tend to see such doormats as holes, and won't step on them to avoid falling into the hole. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A violin that played as the Titanic went down was found-in an attic, of all places. And it sold in an auction for $1.6 million, or roughly three times the expected price. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fight Club might be a classic today, but it tanked when it came out. It really disappointed at the box office and only got mixed reviews - but, eventually, 13 million Fight Club DVDs were sold. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1994, an abandoned village became accessible for the first time in 50 years. The village of Fabbriche di Careggine in Italy was flooded in 1946 so a dam could be built. The water was drained in 1994 so that maintenance on the dam could be performed, and one million tourists flocked to the ruins. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Withers got into music when he found out how much Lou Rawls was making. Не heard a nightclub manager complaining that Rawls was late even though he was getting paid $2,000 a week - - and when Rawls eventually showed up to the club, he got a ton of attention from women. Soon, Withers bought a cheap guitar and started writing songs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We've only been cultivating blueberries for about 100 years. In 1911, botanist Frank Coville figured out that blueberries need highly acidic soil, which made it possible to start cultivating them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the '70s, as part of the Apollo program, NASA was going to build a moon base for six people. The project was only cancelled because Nixon saw the Apollo program as a leftover from JFK's and LBJ's administrations, and stopped supporting it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Black Panther's London sequence is full of blue (for a reason). The image is tinted blue, and nearly everyone is wearing it - because, according to the filmmakers, it represents colonization. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Laura looking at the casino mannequins is a surprisingly important shot in Logan. It's the first time she looks at someone's hands holding another's, which is one of the movie's main motifs - a n d it represents the parent-child bond she's desperately looking for. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Zabka got into martial arts because of The Karate Kid. Не didn't know any martial arts going into the movie, and he kept training karate for five years with Pat Johnson, its martial arts choreographer, after filming wrapped up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You might have seen some of Independence Day's sets in other movies. Independence Day Crimson Tide They used the submarine interior from Crimson Tide and the stealth bomber interior from Broken Arrow. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joe Keery originally wasn't supposed to play Steve in Stranger Things. Не auditioned for Jonathan, along with everybody across the country, but they ended up giving him Steve. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Lenin spoke English, he had an Irish accent. Specifically, he had a Rathmines accent (Rathmines is a Dublin suburb). Apparently, when Lenin was in London and was trying to learn English, he must have had an Irish tutor. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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College student Katy Ayers made a mushroom canoe, and she paddles it in rural Nebraska. The canoe is made out of mycelium - the root-like, underground part of the mushroom. Ayers did this to raise awareness about the many uses of mushrooms. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Beethoven used exactly 60 beans in his cup of coffee. This was so important to him, he would often count every bean when he made coffee. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest known joke is about farts. It's a 3,900-year-old Sumerian joke that goes Something which has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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J. Cole was a first-chair violinist in high school. From 5th to 12th grade, the emcee played violin, earning the top spot at Terry Sanford High School. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sarah Michelle Gellar was almost Amber in Clueless. While on All My Children, Gellar's producers refused to accommodate the movie's filming schedule so the role was given to Elisa Donovan. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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NASA tried to recreate the smell of space for astronaut training simulations. They asked Steven Pearce of Omega Ingredients, a fragrance company, to recreate the odor (it smells kind of like spent gunpowder). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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White Castle is the oldest fast-food burger chain, originating in 1921 White Castle WhiteChoile.com a Castle Save Ump The company's assembly line style food preparation helped to lead the the entire fast food industry. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Statue of Liberty was designed to recognize the abolition of slavery. Edouard de Laboulaye wanted to give the US a gift that would both recognize abolition and commemorate Abraham Lincoln's death. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The chicken you regularly eat is actually injected with a saltwater solution before it's sold. The solution accounts for 15 to 30% of a chicken's weight, and it's added because, apparently, the bird would be too dry without it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The standard pirate speech comes from a 1950s pirate movie - Treasure Planet. Robert Newton played Long John Silver, arrr'd a lot, and used phrases like shiver me timbers. That's how the whole thing got started. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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We think of medieval dentistry as crude, but it was surprisingly advanced. Dentists at the time could do things like filling cavities, handling facial fractures, basic teeth whitening, and even spotting oral cancer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Generally, guns were more strictly regulated in the Old West than they are today. For example, you usually couldn't openly carry guns in towns - you could only do that if you were outside town limits or inside your home. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ancient Egyptians had pregnancy tests of a sort as far back as 3,500 years ago. A woman would pee over a bag of barley and a bag of wheat, and if either one sprouted, the woman was pregnant. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eye of newt in a witch's potion recipe isn't a part of an actual animal. It's actually just another name of mustard seed, and many other witch's potion ingredients are also just various herbs and so on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes 24 hours apart. Presumed dead after the second, he emerged from the jungle with a bottle of gin & some bananas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The 'Shirts vs. Blouses' with Prince that Charlie Murphy described on the Chappelle's Show actually happened. According to guitarist Micki Free, Prince was every bit as good a basketball player as Charlie Murphy said he was. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The United States has the world's most violent weather. It receives more high-impact weather events than anywhere else on Earth. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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